An episode from 3/4/21: This is the first in a series of readings from biographies of Walt Whitman. Tonight, I start with ⁠Paul Zweig's Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet⁠, which focuses on the years preceding the publication of Leaves of Grass. Here, Zweig talks about Whitman's earliest years in Long Island, Brooklyn, and Manhattan.

This is also an important episode for this podcast, where I first realized that perhaps the best way to talk about poetry and creativity is to simply read from any given book, and comment along the way.

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